Tania Miller
In 2015/2016 Tania Miller celebrates her thirteenth season as Music Director of the Victoria Symphony in a position that she has occupied with great distinction and growing acclaim. As the first Canadian woman to be Music Director of a major Canadian symphony orchestra, Tania Miller and the Victoria Symphony will celebrate the orchestra’s 75th anniversary in 15/16 by touring Canada with performances in Vancouver, Ottawa, Quebec City, and Toronto.
On the podium, Maestra Miller projects authority, dynamism and sheer love of the experience of making music. As one critic put it, she delivers “a calm intensity . . . expressive, colourful and full of life . . . her experience and charisma are audible.” Others call her performances “technically immaculate, vivid, and stirring.” She has been a driving force behind new growth, innovation, and quality for the Victoria Symphony and has gained a national reputation as a highly effective advocate and communicator for the arts. As curator, she has distinguished herself in Canada as a visionary leader and innovator.
Tania Miller has appeared as a guest conductor in Canada, the United States, and Europe, with such orchestras as the Toronto Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Bern Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland), Oregon Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Vancouver Symphony, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony, and Wroclaw Philharmonic (Poland).
Maestra Miller’s early passion was opera; she conducted numerous productions for Michigan Opera Works in Ann Arbor (where she served as Artistic Director) and Opera McGill in Montréal. She obtained her doctoral and Master’s degrees in conducting from the University of Michigan. Recently, Maestra Miller received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Royal Roads University in Victoria in recognition of her exemplary work as a leader and for her extraordinary artistic achievements in the community.
Tania lives in Vancouver with her husband and two boys (8 and 10).
